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Bessie Eyton
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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 1690990
IMDb ID: nm0264286
Known for: Acting
Born: July 5, 1890
Died: January 22, 1965
Age: 74
Place of birth: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1911 - 1925
Years active: 15
Wikidata: Q2899921
Also known as
Bessie Harrison
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Biography
Bessie starred in at least 200 melodrama, action westerns and crime films. In the 1910 she was visiting the Selig Film studios with a party of friends, when a director saw and liked her red hair because he said it would photograph a beautiful black, so he offered her a minor role, she had no formal training on stage, as did many early film actors, she was talented and soon rose to be one of Selig's most popular stars.
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as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
Shotgun Jones
1914 • Movie
as Virginia Carvel
The Crisis
1916 • Movie
as Sally Madison
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914 • Movie
as Eleanor Fordham
The Still Alarm
1918 • Movie
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
Children of Banishment
1919 • Movie
as Marie Le Groux
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914 • Movie
as The Captain's Daughter
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912 • Movie
as Kathlyn Otis
The City of Purple Dreams
1918 • Movie
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
Beware of Strangers
1917 • Movie
as Sophronia
Lend Me Your Name
Movie
as Starlight
In the Long Ago
1913 • Movie
as Conchita
Blackbeard
1911 • Movie
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Acting Appearances in Movies
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as Sophronia
Lend Me Your Name
Movie
as Ada Tremaine
The Girl of Gold
1925 • Movie
as Maybelle Wescott
Cheap Kisses
1924 • Movie
as Margaret Quentin
The Usurper
1919 • Movie
as Christabel Beaumont
A Man of Honor
1919 • Movie
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
Children of Banishment
1919 • Movie
as Gladys
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918 • Movie
as Eleanor Fordham
The Still Alarm
1918 • Movie
as Kathlyn Otis
The City of Purple Dreams
1918 • Movie
as Mary Moran
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917 • Movie
as Texas Ryan
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917 • Movie
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
Beware of Strangers
1917 • Movie